To the Worshipfull His Majesty< no role >
's Justices of the Peace
for the City and
Liberty of Westminster
in their General Quarter Session of the Peace, by
Adjournment Assembled.
The Humble Petition of the Churchwardens and Surveyors of the Highways of
the Parish of Saint George Hanover Square
within the Liberty of Westminster
in
the County of Middlesex
.
Sheweth
That the Highways Causeways and pavements to be repaired by the
said Parish are now so broken and out of repair that they cannot be sufficiently amended
and repaired for this present year commending from Christmas last past at less Charge
than three hundred Pounds & upwards which may be raised by a Rate not exceeding three
half pence in the Pound upon all and every the Inhabitants Owners and Occupiers of
Lands Houses Tenements and Hereditaments within the said Parish.
Your Petitioners therefore Humbly pray this Court to grant
them an Orderof Courtto Enable your Petitioners to make
a Rate or assessment not Exceeding One penny half penny in the Pound
upon all and every the Inhabitants of the said Parish for
repairing of the said Highways Causeways and Pavements as
by the Statute in that Case made and Provided.
Fra: Burson< no role >
Jos. Patterson< no role >
}
Churchwardens
Cornelius Vanderstop< no role >
Charles Turham< no role >
Wm: Perritt< no role >
}
Surveyors
of the
Highways.